What You'll Do
provide strategic consulting, drive adoption, ensure a positive employee experience, and ensure scale across communities.
Strategic Consulting & Trusted Advisor
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with the communities we serve, aiming to understand its members, the community’s goals, challenges and user experience
- Advocate for and provide input to the development of global P&C priorities based on community context, emerging insights and needs
- Provide strategic consulting to connect community’s imperativesand their short and long-term people plans.
- Develop people plans which meet communities needs whilst drawing on scaled solutions and offerings and incorporate global priorities
- Co-create and track progress and success measures of people plans, championing adoption, linking dependences and driving business impact against key priorities such as Conscious Leaders & Teams and Inclusion.
- Act as coach, trusted advisor and P&C champion to community leaders/leadership groups to help drive adoption and delivery of people plans, build capability and evangelize strategic goals
Deep Understanding and Insights
- Actively seek to capture, synthesise and refresh both external and internal insights about the community and their ecosystem
- Leverage insights and data to build deep understanding of business, market, and community trends and future focused needs
- Drive informed people decision-making for each community by linking data and analytics
- Understand, utilize and represent P&C analytics and insights with community groups through business forums and success scorecards
Transformation Enablement and Change
- Partner to define and drive transformative change to support each community’s people plans and strategic imperative such as I&C and Conscious Culture
- Represent the community's voice to guide cross-community transformations
- Represent Cisco P&C within communities and external ecosystem in relevant markets and for relevant topic areas
Advocacy and Portfolio Adoption
- Help the community embrace, use and implement relevant solutions across the P&C portfolio
- Lead regular reviews and provide portfolio feedback and insights to Growth, Solutions and People Experience team
- Provide the “homebase” leadership support for all P&C team members within the extended team, leading events and activities to drive One P&C team connections and culture.
Requirements
- 10 + years of proven experience as an HR Business Partner or similar role.
- Experience working with sales and technology teams would be preferred.
- Proven experience working in agile and matrix environments.
- Significant experience working with global HR teams to develop and implement transformative organizational initiatives.
- Strong experience in executive-level interactions.
- Comprehensive understanding of human resources principles, practices, and regulations and its impact on business
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, problem-solving and decision-making abilities will be a key requirement.
- Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
Why You'll Love Cisco
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)